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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OAMILLE AMEYE, OF YSEGI-IEM, BELGIUM.

GASIFYING APPARATUS FOR WINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 588,547, dated August 24, 1897.

Application filed March 6, 1897. $erial No. 626,177. (No model.) Patented in Belgium $eptemher 7, 1896, No. 123,374.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OAMILLE AMEYE, a citizen of Belgium, residing at Yseghem, Belgium, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gasifying Apparatus for Wines, Beer, and other Fermented orNon- Fermented Liquids, (for which Letters Patent have been obtained in Belgium, dated September 7, 1896, No. 123,374,) and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to apparatus for aerating liquidsthat is to say, for charging liquids with a gas. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the apparatus, the bottlecarriers being broken away; and Fig. '2 is a topplan View of the same. Figs. 3 and4 are front and side views of the bottle-carriers mounted on their supporting-shaft.

In bearings or upon suitable frame-standards A is revolubly mounted a shaft B, with an internal longitudinal gas-passage 19, connected bymeans of any suitable well-known coupling 0 with a pipe G, in com munication with a source of carbonic-acid-gas supply, for instance, said pipe having in practice a suit able controlling valve or cook (not shown) for controlling the flow of gas to'the shaft. At or near its closed end the shaft B carries a fast and loose belt-pulley D and D and a worm extension B, in gear with a worm-wheel w, that actuates through suitable intermediate gearing the hammer of a bell d at each revolution of said shaft B. Any other suitable and well-known indicating mechanism whereby the revolutions of said shaft are rendered audible, or both visible and audible, may, however, be employed.

The shaft B has a number of coupling branches F, adapted to be closed by screwplugs F, for connection with the gas-pipes leading to the bottle-carriers I, of which I have shown four, each capable of holding four bottles, so that the liquid in sixteen bottles can be aerated or charged at one and the same time. Of course the capacity of the apparatus may be increased by using a shaftof greater length, while such capacity can readily be decreased by removal of one or more of the bottle-carriers or by simply cutting off the flow of gas to the carriers intended to be cut out. The shaft B has also attached thereto an air-escape'pipeH, provided with a suitable stop-cock h. v

The bottle-carriers I are arranged in pairs on shaft B, and to thisend each carrier I of the pair is provided with a half-bearing 1', fitting shaft B, said'bearings having suitable bolt-flanges f for securing the same to said shaft.

All the carriers are constructed alike and are separately connected with the gas-passage in shaft B. It will therefore be sufficient to describe the construction of one of them.

The carrier has at its lower end bearings fortwo spindles L, connected with two bottle-rests K, which are provided in their upper faces with a circular recess for the reception of a seat k for a bottle 6, (shown in dotted lines in Figs. 3 and 4,) said seats being made of a flexible or preferably of an elastic material, as rubber. Above the half-bearing 2' the carrier I is provided with two perforated guide-lugs i for hook-bolts o to which are hooked one end of coiled springs S, the other end of said springs being connected with their respective bottle-seats K and s'ervin g to press the bottles firmly to their rubber corks P,

hereinafter referred to. A I

Thespindles L that support the bottle-rests K have free vertical motion in their guidelugs 2', their screwthreaded upper ends screwing into lugs Z, projecting from the under side of said bottle-rests K, whereby the latter can be adjusted relatively to the fixed corks P to accommodate bottles of different height.

The lower ends of the spindles L are pivotally connected at n with angle-levers N, fulcrumed on studs n on the inner face of the guide-lugs t" at the lower end of the carrier 1, so that by depressing said levers the bottlerests K can be moved away from the fixed .corks P against the stress of their springs S in positioning or removing the bottles.

At its upper end the support Iis bent at right angles and terminates in a cross-head 2 provided with an internal gas-passage, in' the opposite ends of which are screwed tubular connecting-plugs 19, connected with similar plugs 13 through the medium of a curled safety pipe RU screwed into cork-holders s, secured to or The screw-plugs p are formed 011 the cross-head t", and communicate with the inlet or horizontal branch of an angular gas-passage .9, formed in said holders, the vertical branch of said passage being open to the atmosphere, and on said holders are secured rubber corks P.

The gas-passage in the cross-head i of the carrier I is connected about midway of its length with an appropriate coupling branch F on shaft 13 through a pipe S, which is provided with a cut-off valve or cock 0. The cocks O of two proximate carriers I are linked together in pairs by means of links 0, pivotally connected at their proximate inner ends 0 to a rod or bar 0 on or projecting from a cut-01f bar 0 parallel with and extending the full length of the apparatus.

In the position of the devices shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the stop-cocks O of all the pipes S are closed, so that when the actuating-bar O is depressed to the necessary extent all of said stop-cocks will be simultaneously opened,and closed likewise when the bar 0 is again returned to its normal position.

The operation of the apparatus is as'follows: It being presumed that the bottle-carriers are supplied with bottles filled with a liquid to be aerated or charged and that all the stop-cocks O, as well as the stop-cock in the supply-pipe, are closed, the supply of gas is now turned on, the stop-cocks O are opened, and the shaft B set in motion. After a certain number of revolutions of the shaft, say about twentyfive, more or less, (the number of the revolutions depending upon the nature of the liquid tobe charged, whether fermented or unfermented, and the quantity of air such liquid may contain,) the rotation of theshaftis stopped, the supply of gas to the apparatus cut off, the stopcock It opened, and the air allowed to escape, after which said stop-cock is closed and the supply of gas turned on and the shaft again set in motion and kept in motion until the liquid in the bottles is charged to the desired degree, The number of revolutions of the shaft will depend .upon the pressure of the gas and upon the degree to which the liquid is to be saturated, as well as upon the nature of the liquid. admitted under a pressure of from three to four atmospheres, from fifty to one hundred and fifty revolutions of the shaft will be required to saturate the liquid, the indicator giving the n umber of revolutions of the shaft. Its rotation is stopped whenever it has re volved the required number of times. The cocks O are then closed, the levers N depressed, and the bottles removed and corked.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination with'a .revoluble shaft having an axial gas-passage, bottle-carriers detachably connected with and arranged in pairs on opposite sides of said shaft, said carriers bent outwardly and provided with a cross-head at one end, stoppers fitted to said When gas is cross-heads, and gas-passages leading from the cross-heads through the respective stoppers; of a detachable valved pipe for each cross-head, in communication with the gaspassage therein and with the like passage in the shaft, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination with a revoluble shaft having an axial gas-passage, bottle-carriers detachably connected with and arranged in pairs on opposite sides of said shaft, said carriers bent outwardly and provided with a cross-head at one end, stoppers fitted to said cross-heads, and gas-passages leading from the cross-heads through the respective stoppers; of a detachable valved pipe for each cross-head, in communication with the gaspassage therein and with the like passage in the shaft, and means for operating the valves of said pipes simultaneously for the purpose set forth.

3. A bot tle-carrierfor the purpose set forth comprising a frame adapted to be secured to a revoluble, shaft, cross-head at its upper end provided with a pair of stoppers and a gas-duct and connections between said duct and the stoppers, spring-held supports for holding the bottles against their stoppers, and levers for lowering the supports, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a revoluble shaft provided with an internal gas-passage connectible with a source of gas-supply, with two bottle-carriers secured in pairs on said shaft, each carrier provided with two bottle-supports, with a cross-head above said supports having an internal gas passage, two corkholders provided with a gas-outlet in communication with said gas-passage, and a pipe connection between the last-named passage and the passage in the shaft, said carrier and pipe connections detachable from said shaft, for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination with a revoluble shaft, of a bottle-carrier I composed of two frames provided about their longitudinal center with semicircular bearings forsaid shaft and with suitable bolt-flanges for securing said frames to the shaft, substantially as described.

(3. The combination ofa revoluble shaft provided with an internal gas-passage connectible with asource of gas-supply, bottlecarriers mounted on said shaft provided with gas-ducts, pipe connections, between the said ducts and hollow shaft, valves for said pipe connections, adapted to be operated simultaneously by link connections with a common shaft, and a valved pipe on the revoluble shaft for the collection and expulsion of the air driven from the bottles during charging, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CAMILLE AMEYE. 

